Misty Montes

{{Short description|Mountains on Titan}} <div>[[Image:Titan Cassini radar T23 (part) - Misty Montes.png|250px|thumb|right|Misty Montes on [[Cassini–Huygens|Cassini]] radar image]] <div style="position: relative; left: -95px; top: -200px">[[Image:Flashspot.gif|12px|right]]</div> </div> The '''Misty Montes''' are a range of mountains on [[Titan (moon)|Titan]], the largest [[moon]] of the planet [[Saturn]]. The range is located in the northern hemisphere of Titan, between 56–7° north and 61–3° west.<ref name=GPN>International Astronomical Union. [https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/15048 "Misty Montes"]. ''Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature''. Accessed Nov 14, 2012.</ref>

The Misty Montes are named after the [[Misty Mountains]], a range of mountains in [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]'s fictional world of [[Middle Earth]] which appears most prominently in ''[[The Hobbit]]''.<ref name=GPN/> The name follows a convention that Titanean mountains are named after mountains in Tolkien's work.<ref>International Astronomical Union. [https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Page/Categories "Categories for Naming Features on Planets and Satellites"]. ''Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature''. Accessed Nov 14, 2012.</ref> It was formally announced on November 13, 2012.<ref>Jennifer Blue, [https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/HotTopics/index.php?/archives/463-Eight-New-Names-for-Titan-Surface-Features.html "Eight New Names for Titan Surface Features"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222134422/https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/HotTopics/index.php?%2Farchives%2F463-Eight-New-Names-for-Titan-Surface-Features.html |date=2014-02-22}}. ''USGS Astrologeology Science Center''. Nov 13, 2012.</ref>

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[[Category:Mountain ranges]] [[Category:Surface features of Titan (moon)]]